If you like the program. You can purchase Camtasia 8. What you would do is purchase Camtasia 9. Camtasia 9's activation key, will activate Camtasia 8.

Camtasia 8 is no longer officially supported by TechSmith. This means there will be no more product updates. Free Tech support is not available "Officially". However, their pretty flexible. If you contact them, they may offer you support anyway.

In the future, when you upgrade your computer to a 64bit operating system.You can install Camtasia 9 on that computer.Camtasia keys never expire and are valid for a lifetime.

Thanks for jumping in here and helping out. Everything you said is true, with one exception. TechSmith continues to offer free tech support for both the current major versions of our software and the previous major version as well. For example, in this case, we will support both Camtasia (Windows) version 8 and 9. https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-u...

Well, it depends on what you mean by "supported". You're correct in that we do not plan on releasing any updated builds of the previous versions (bug fixes, improvements, etc.). However, in my five years at TechSmith, we've always offered tech support for one version back, as well as continued to keep up the tutorials and documentation for the previous version as well.